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[metacides]

APPLICANT INFO.
NAME: jessi
CONTACT: sharkly @ plurk, jessi#9413 @ discord
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CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Jon Lane Kent
CANON: DC Comics: New 52
AGE: Not specified. Late teens~early twenties.
APPEARANCE: righty
CANON POINT: Superboy end of #34

BACKGROUND: beep

PERSONALITY:

Jonathan Lane Kent is one giant assed mess. He’s an asshole with a bad mouth who doesn’t shut up when he should, shittalks way too much, and physically? He’s literally falling apart at the seams; his cells can’t seem to make up their damn minds when it comes to what to do with him, so instead, they just tear him up from the inside out. Which, as you can imagine, is pretty painful. What’s even shittier is, just when he was figuring out what it means to actually be a person, he fucks off and dies. In the stereotypical, only-around-for-an-arc-or-two superhero comic way: he punched his way out of the pocket dimension keeping him around, and was never seen again.

Kidnapped and raised in the hands of his father’s enemy in the 30th century, Jon was taught that metahumans were the enemies, and had to be exterminated. He made it his own job to take them down, one by one, as the strongest meta who currently existed. He was absolutely fueled by this responsibility given to him, this rage towards metakind--towards himself for being what he was: the son of the last Kryptonian, and some human. A meta himself. Even Harvest realized that raising a child based off of anger and hatred would only cause Jon to grow up to tear himself up one day--so instead? He lied, manipulated him, made him think the metas were the absolute worse things in existence. They--had gotten fairly bad, yes, and there were so many of them, but Jon was taught they were killers.

They weren’t exactly. But Jon still thought they were. He let that belief fuel him, let it keep him going as he took down meta after meta until they were nearly wiped off of the face of his Earth.

This is where the Teen Titans came in. Transported through a timeloop, they arrived just moments before Jon was destined to fall once more and be put in cryosleep before being transported back in time so Harvest could search for a cure. Jon encountered Kon, a clone built from his, Clark’s, and Lois’ DNA to try and help find a cure for him (thanks, Harvest). And what other kind of reaction is there to finding your clone, other than telepathically sending him images of you massacring countless metahumans to get him to come out and fight you? Obviously, that’s the only correct action. So that’s exactly what Jon did. He fought Kon, lost horribly, but somehow ended up getting stuck with the Teen Titans posing as Kon, anyway as they continued their time traveling journey.

Which opened a whole other can of worms, for Jon. Kon was well-loved in the Titans, and even though Jon avoided spending time with them as much as was humanly possible, the whole hugging and concern thing is something one notices. He didn’t stick around them for long, though; as soon as he’d done his job, Jon expected Harvest to pull him back through time. However, instead of being pulled back to where he was meant to be in the timestream, he was pulled back to New York, in Kon’s time. Worse, he encountered human friends bent on helping him and keeping him alive as his conditioned worsened.

It’s these humans that really start turning Jon around as a character; they show him compassion, care, empathy. Despite the fact that they know he’s not Kon, and definitely not human, they try everything in their power to keep him alive. Even if he tried attacking them, at first. Even if he freaked the fuck out when he woke up to nothing. It’s them, and his telepathic connection to Kon, that really start teaching Jon that maybe Harvest really was just a piece of shit. People care about people. Humans do stupid shit, like try to save some dumb alien from dying despite his hissing and fighting against them.

Jon had spent his entire life fighting against something. His life certainly doesn’t end any different. The difference? At the very end, when Jon’s fighting against numerous other versions of Superboy and his past self, he sacrifices himself to save everyone else. He runs straight into his other self, destroys the pocket universe full of Superboys, and ends himself to make sure everyone else makes it out okay, including Kon.

Jon starts out as a hateful, spiteful character, whose only goal is to destroy metahumans as a species to help the humans’ in the war. He’s sassy, sarcastic, mouthy, and bitchy--curses far more than anyone in the Superfamily should, but that’s what happens when you’re raised by a villain, right? But Jon does redeem himself. He learns what it’s like to be more than just a warmonger’s adopted ultimate weapon. He learns empathy, what it really means to have friends, how to actually give a shit about someone aside from his adoptive father.

Which really goes to show how malleable he is, when he’s given something to latch onto. Jon’s more than capable of changing who he is, and has. He’s not a small child, but in many ways, he’s very much like one: he fights for acceptance, he wants attachment. He wants to live, even if he knows what he has done throughout the course of his life was really shitty.

SUITABILITY:

Jon is a born and bred fighter--he’s strong and used to living off the battlefield. After all, he spent the majority of his life fighting in a war against metas. Fighting in a team will be hard for him at first, but he’ll be quick to adjust to it; he was, just before his canon point, just getting used to working together with humans. Jon does not have anywhere to return to back home, either; the advancements of medical technology in game will be the only thing keeping him alive, given his cellular instability--which is a fantastic motivator for him to actually. Keep on shit in game.

ABILITIES:

TELEKINESIS --

Jon is shown to be an extremely powerful telekinetic; he has a pretty intense amount of control over it, too. He can use his telekinetics to do small things, such as manipulate someone’s center of gravity to cause them to fall. He can use it to cause small devices to explode, without even coming into direct contact with them. Additionally, he is able to manipulate electronic devices to an extent; Jon is able to sift through a fairly intense amount of data from computers just through touch. These are all just the small things he uses his telekinesis for, though.

Jon can find the entire layout of a building just by laying his hand on it and sending his telekinetic power through it. He’s also able to bend light around himself, and become mildly invisible with it. However, he’s not well-practiced with the whole light-bending thing. HIs telekinesis is also able to sever the limbs off of enemies, it can generate a force field around himself and others to block physical, or energy attacks.

Jon’s telekinesis is his strongest ability, and the one he relies on most to do--pretty much everything. He uses it to fly, too, and uses it to help mimic being invulnerable

TELEPATHY --

Jon is shown to have some telepathic abilities, but the extent to which he’s able to use it is not specified. He uses it, for instance, to look into Cassie’s memories of Kon to be able to impersonate him with a little more accuracy. He’s also able to telepathically send images to others; this is shown when he sends Kon memories of Jon killing off metahumans to help lure him out into a fight.

KRYPTONIAN PHYSIOLOGY --

Jon is half Kryptonian. This leads to some. . complications with his cellular structure, but also is what gives him the abilities that he does have. His body’s near-constantly trying to tear itself in two (something that would be stabilized by the magitek nanobots in game) due to this, and it has caused bouts of seizing, as well as internal bleeding. However, it also means that Jon has many of the abilities the average Kryptonian has. He is not invulnerable, although he does mimic this with his telekinesis. If he’s not focusing on trying to be invulnerable, he’s about as easy to damage as an average human.

However, he is still extremely fast, his metabolism helps him heal from injuries fast (an injury to his eye that’s bleeding fairly badly is shown to be relatively healed up in only a few moments), and Jon does not require substance other than light from a yellow sun; he could go probably forever without eating without any complications.

He’s also able to survive in space without any protection, and can speak in space without any issue. His sense of smell, and vision is a lot more enhanced than any humans’; Jon is able to see much further, hear sounds even dogs wouldn’t be able to pick up, and from an unspecified long-range. Clark is shown to be able to hear sounds from continents away--so it’s probably about the same.

ABSORPTION --

Jon is able to absorb the “meta juices” (as he refers to them) from metahumans (ie, any human with advanced abilities). This helps power him up and gives him a bit of a power boost after. It’s also one of the main ways he had kept himself in full power, in canon. His cellular instability results in random bursts of power outages; absorbing power from metahumans helps keep him strong.

INVENTORY: Just his (stolen) containment suit. It’s self repairing to an extent.

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